From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 23 10:29:43 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4286116A418 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:29:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx3.netclusive.de (mx3.netclusive.de [89.110.132.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0424D13C44B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Fddc5.f.ppp-pool.de [195.4.221.197]) (Authenticated sender: ncf1534p2) by mx3.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72970604BDC for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:29:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 2E60B15217; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:26:45 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:26:45 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 32 Message-ID: <fd5f15$2gup$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <48ce8d530709211747s615bc16by5766441066f19237@mail.gmail.com> <7CDF3AD1-DE13-46F6-A84F-B26FA3F97032@dragffy.com> <fd36g7$2bo0$5@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <200709221918.53961.wundram@beenic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1190543205 82905 192.168.100.5 (23 Sep 2007 10:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:26:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-p7 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:29:43 -0000 On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:18:53 +0200 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: >> The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parser. Excuse my spelling in the last message! :-) I corrected it in this quote. > Sorry, but that's BS (IMHO). Don't tell me, tell Dan Berstein (happy hunting): http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html Observe point 5. > Any program interpreting some form of input is called a parser, and the > only distinction is the algorithm you need, i.e. whether you need a > "full-blown" stack-machine to interpret the input (think of recursive > declarations), or not. [...] I know what the Postfix configuration looks like, I've been over it a countless number of times. I know it is simple, even to parse, but there is still no real comparision to qmail's configuration. qmail has several settings that come "one setting per file". IIRC the other settings go "one per line", no comments, no spaces, no quotation marks. I'm not saying the Postfix configuration is not as good or even complex. qmail's configuration is just easier to read and write if both are done be an automation, rather than a human. Regards Chris